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Latest News from Eric NovikoffenCopyright 2018 Ulitzer.com Ulitzer.comMon, 19 Mar 2018 10:41:33 EDThttp://backend.userland.com/rss360Are Humans Really Necessary for Maintaining SLAs in the Cloud? http://ericnovikoff.sys-con.com/node/804549
Are humans really necessary for maintaining SLAs? In today's cloud computing deployments, especially with systems like Amazon's EC2, the users' application is responsible for both measuring and taking action on application performance issues. This complicates deployment and coding, as well as tying your application to a particular cloud provider. However, I believe that the next generation of cloud deployment frameworks will be able to do this automatically, by integrating general-purpose monitoring applications with policy-based cloud management engines. <p><a href="http://ericnovikoff.sys-con.com/node/804549" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:00:00 ESThttp://ericnovikoff.sys-con.com/node/804549http://ericnovikoff.sys-con.com/node/804549#feedbackCloud Computing and Reliabilityhttp://ericnovikoff.sys-con.com/node/655820
IT managers and pundits speak of the reliability of a system in "nines." Two nines is the same as 99%, which comes to (100%-99%)*365 or 3.65 days of downtime per year, which is typical for non-redundant hardware if you include the time to reload the operating system and restore backups (if you have them) after a failure. Three nines is about 8 hours of downtime, four nines is about 52 minutes and the holy grail of 5 nines is 7 minutes. <p><a href="http://ericnovikoff.sys-con.com/node/655820" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:40:00 EDThttp://ericnovikoff.sys-con.com/node/655820http://ericnovikoff.sys-con.com/node/655820#feedback